The 4+1 view model of industry--academia collaboration

Abstract

Industry--academia projects exist in complex contexts of various stakeholders, time perspectives, and goals. In order to analyze projects and communicate about them, we have defined an "architectural" model for industry--academia collaboration, inspired by Kruchten's software architecture model. The model has four views of i) time, ii) space, iii) activity and iv) domain, corresponding to the questions: when, where, how and what. The +1 view is the scenario, binding the other four together. We illustrate the model by applying it to the Industrial Excellence Center EASE and the Sigrun Software Innovation and Engineering Institute. The model helps analyzing industry--academia collaboration projects, to find gaps and reduce redundant work.